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To: ebb tide; ealgeone
For the second time, who do you think will judge your merits for salvation upon your death? God the Father or God the Son?

No one because NOBODY *merits* salvation.

Salvation is a free gift, given by God through faith in His son.

Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

We are then transferred into God's kingdom and Christ's righteousness is credited to our account. We don't depend on OUR righteouness, but the righteousness of Jesus given to us as a gift.

Colossians 2:13-15 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.

He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.

Colossians 3:3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

I've already been judged, before I die and have passed from death to lif3e and am now seated with Christ in the heavenly places.

John 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

Ephesians 2:1-10 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

158 posted on 12/30/2017 2:41:49 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: metmom; ealgeone
Salvation is a free gift, given by God through faith in His son.

So you believe all Christians are saved and none go to Hell?

And I noticed you didn't capitalize, "son"; so you've already answered my question.

159 posted on 12/30/2017 2:45:45 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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